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(
1
, 1292), “an interval, space” (akin to B), is used of time in Acts
5:7.¶
B. Verb.
(
B
, 1339), “to set apart, separate” ( , “apart,”
, “to cause to
stand”), see A, is rendered “after the space of” in Luke 22:59; in Acts 27:28, with
$
,
“a little,”
RV
, “after a little space” (
KJV
, “when they had gone a little further”). See
PART
.
Notes:
(1) In Acts 15:33 and Rev. 2:21,
KJV
,
, “time” (
RV
), is translated
“space.” (2) In Acts 19:8 and 10, , “for or during” (of time), is translated “for the space
of”; in 19:34, “about the space of” (3) In Acts 5:34,
KJV
,
$
(the neuter of
$
,
“short”), used adverbially, is translated “a little space” (
RV
“… while”). (4) In Gal. 2:1,
, “through,” is rendered “after the space of,”
RV
, stressing the length of the period
mentioned (
KJV
, “after,” which would represent the preposition
). (5) In Jas. 5:17
there is no word in the original representing the phrase “by the space of,”
KJV
(
RV
, “for”).
(6) In Rev. 14:20,
KJV
,
, “away from,” is translated “by the space of” (
RV
, “as far as”).
(7) In Rev. 17:10,
KJV
,
, “a little while” (
RV
), is rendered “a short space.”
SPARE, SPARINGLY
A. Verb.
(
&
, 5339), “to spare,” i.e., “to forego” the infliction of that evil or
retribution which was designed, is used with a negative in Acts 20:29; Rom. 8:32; 11:21
(twice); 2 Cor. 13:2; 2 Pet. 2:4, 5; positively, in 1 Cor. 7:28; 2 Cor. 1:3; rendered
“forbear” in 2 Cor. 12:6. See
FOREBEAR
.¶
Note:
In Luke 15:17,
$
, “to abound, have abundance,” is translated “have
enough and to spare.”
B. Adverb.
(
!
, 5340), akin to A, “sparingly,” occurs in 2 Cor. 9:6
(twice), of sowing and reaping.
SPARROW
$
(
$ &
, 4765), a diminutive of
$
, “a sparrow,” occurs in Matt.
10:29, 31; Luke 12:6, 7.¶
SPEAK
1.
(
!
, 3004), “to say, speak”: see
SAY
, No. 1.
2.
(
!
, 2980), for which see
SAY
, No. 2, is used several times in 1 Cor. 14;
the command prohibiting women from speaking in a church gathering, vv. 34, 35, is
regarded by some as an injunction against chattering, a meaning which is absent from the
use of the verb everywhere else in the NT; it is to be understood in the same sense as in
vv. 2, 3-6, 9, 11, 13, 18, 19, 21, 23, 27-29, 39.
3.
(
$
!
, 4354), “to speak to or with” (
, “to,” and No. 2), is used
in Acts 13:43 and 28:20.¶